Yemen says Israel crossed redlines with attacks on Sana’a airport
Iran calls for action against US, Israeli ‘destruction’ in Muslim states
Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement vowed to retaliate against Israel after the regime’s two rounds of strikes on the Arab country, with a Yemeni official saying that Tel Aviv has crossed red lines and should await a response.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Ansarullah’s political bureau denounced the Israeli attacks as “further evidence” of the country’s “bankruptcy.”
“Targeting Yemeni ports, Sana’a airport, cement factories, and power plants aims to impose a blockade on the Yemeni people,” the statement said.
The Ansarullah added that Israeli and American attacks on Yemen “will not go unanswered and will not deter Yemen from continuing its support for Gaza.”
“We tell the US, the British, and the Zionists that our military operations in support of Gaza will continue, no matter the sacrifices. The Zionists have crossed redlines and must await Yemen’s response,” Yemen’s Supreme Political Council member Muhammad al-Bukhaiti told Al Mayadeen.
“The US and the Zionist regime’s resort to attacking civilian facilities indicates their failure and defeat”, he said.
Yemen ready for any scenario
The Yemeni official said that his country is ready to face all scenarios designed by the US, Isarel, and Britain.
Since Monday, the Israeli warplanes have launched rounds of strikes on Yemen in retaliation for a missile strike by Yemen’s Armed Forces that targeted Israel’s key airport.
The Yemeni missile penetrated the perimeter of Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport for the first time on Sunday, leaving a large crater and wounding six people.
On Tuesday, the Israeli fighter jets bombed the airport in the capital Sana’a. Residents reported power outages in Sana’a and the port city of Hodeida, after the Israelis struck three electricity stations in and around the capital.
Three people were killed and 38 wounded in Israeli strikes on Tuesday.
Israel’s military claimed it took the airport “fully” out of action after hitting runways and aircraft.
Yemeni authorities said on Monday four people were also killed and 35 wounded as Israel’s strikes hit a cement factory and targets in Hodeida.
Yemen’s Armed Forces have been attacking Israeli-bound ships in the Red Sea trade route since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023 in solidarity with the Palestinians.
As well as the airport and power stations, the latest raids also hit a cement factory in Amran, Yemeni media said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said retaliation “will not happen in one bang, but there will be many bangs.”
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei on Tuesday denounced the strikes as “a blatant crime and a gross violation of the principles and rules of international law.”
Baqaei urged international and regional powers to act against ongoing US and Israeli “destruction” in Islamic countries.